Lawyers liability cases going to court have increased three-fold in the last decade, anecdotal evidence suggests, so what steps can lawyers take to reduce the risk of being sued?

Small and medium-sized enterprises in Spain and Portugal continue to risk losing potential investment and supply chain contracts and could face criminal charges

Report accuses foreign investors of hunting for profits in Europe´s crisis countries, and says Spain´s ´solar dream´ has become a nightmare

But market insiders give hope to embattled lawyers by saying new EU legislation could halt the advance of the likes of KPMG, Deloitte, EY and PwC